Friday, March 6, 2015

"Barrett man convicted in child porn case"

http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20150306/NEWS/150309603

After a two-hour deliberation, a jury Friday convicted Nathan Sauers, 35, of Barrett Township, on 10 counts of possessing child pornography, 10 counts of distributing child pornography and one count of criminally using a communication facility.
Sauers had posted on $20,000 bail after his Aug. 12, 2013, arrest on charges, but upon his conviction Friday was placed back in Monroe County Correctional Facility in lieu of bail modified to $100,000 by County Court Judge Jon Mark.
District Attorney's Office detectives had charged Sauers of downloading multiple child porn images between Aug. 4 and Aug. 8, 2013.
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The defense and prosecution presented closing arguments Friday morning, prior to jury deliberation.
Attorney Brad Weidenbaum, who with attorney Axel Jones is representing Sauers, said there was reasonable doubt as to who in the Sauers household was using the computer, whether any child porn was in fact downloaded to the computer and, if so, whether there was in fact intent to download child porn. Software programs like the one Sauers used are notoriously virus-prone and can download files containing material not wanted by the user, Weidenbaum said.

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